Government prepares to make Prison system gender friendly

October 27, 2015 /
Pahichan Reporter

Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 27 – Government has said that new Prison would be gender friendly. Government has already decided to make Prison gender friendly which will be constructed at Bidur of Nuwakot district. General Director of Department of Prison Management HimNath Dawadi informed that new Prison would be gender friendly.

“The homosexuals and transgender could be put in a separate room and for that to happen who should study the verdict of court,” he said.

He said in the new Prison there should be separate room for transgender, HIV effected people. According to him, new Prison would be constructed within next four years. He said that he does not know though homosexual and transgender would be put in separate Prison now.

There is not a uniform understanding among ordinary people about homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. Even the people who know about variance in this community address saying female, male and transgender. They, however, do not have proper knowledge that transgender have two categories: transgender woman and transgender man.
In this situation, it is not an easy task to inform society about their rights. Even the media and society did not have a positive attitude towards sexual and gender minority such as homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. National media had... Read more